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June 20, 2021 in Knox // KNOX – A Father’s Day tale: how Francis Rattenbury’s son overcame family tragedy
June 19, 2021 in Armchair Mayor // ROTHENBURGER – Fist bumps and other things from the pandemic we should keep
June 19, 2021 in Local Voices // PETERS – Midway through the vaccine rollout, NACI’s curveball was not helpful
June 18, 2021 in Crime/ Police // POLICE – Charges laid in connection with deaths of Kamloops brothers
June 18, 2021 in In The Ledge // IN THE LEDGE – ‘We need to support First Nations who want residential schools removed’

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KNOX – A Father’s Day tale: how Francis Rattenbury’s son overcame family tragedy

June 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

EVEN WITHOUT THE MURDER, it would have been hard to live under the weight of his famous but scandal-tinged father’s name. Yet John Rattenbury, orphaned by homicide and [Continue]

KNOX – ‘Your call is important to us, please stay on the line’

June 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

I GOT A MESSAGE from Facebook this morning. “Jack,” it began, “we care about you and the memories that you share.” Enclosed, thoughtfully, was a photo I had posted [Continue]

KNOX – A two-block stretch on the road to uncertain change

June 7, 2021 // 3 Comments

JOSEPH TRUTCH was an odious man. He was racist not only in word but in action. As B.C.’s pre-Confederation land commissioner, he was contemptuous of Indigenous people, used [Continue]

KNOX – Climate crisis didn’t end just because we’ve been fixated on plague

May 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

THREE YEARS AGO, a veteran forest campaigner was on the phone, bemoaning how little attention green-minded people were paying to the logging of old-growth on Vancouver [Continue]

KNOX – Some questions they should have asked on the census

May 23, 2021 // 0 Comments

I FILLED OUT MY CENSUS questionnaire last week. So did you, probably. Some households got the long form, but mine got the short one, which was a bit like opening War and [Continue]

KNOX – Don’t mow your lawn in May, help save the planet

May 16, 2021 // 4 Comments

GOOD NEWS: I thought I was lazy, but it turns out I’m an environmental superhero. Suzuki should wear my picture on a T-shirt. What I refer to is my inadvertent adherence to [Continue]

KNOX – A white bicycle and flowers at the spot where a cyclist died

May 2, 2021 // 0 Comments

SOME ROADSIDE MEMORIALS bring you down. They drag you into somebody else’s grief, an unwanted reminder that a tragic death happened right here. Often the impromptu shrines [Continue]

KNOX – Is there a right to balk at those who balk at getting a shot?

April 25, 2021 // 0 Comments

I GOT THE ASTRAZENECA this week. Failed to clot up and croak, which will disappoint some readers. My arm was sore for a couple of days, but I put that down to Bill Gates [Continue]

KNOX – Prince Philip, over the Malahat and into 70 years in the spotlight

April 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

PRINCE PHILIP, who died Friday, had several links to Vancouver Island. His friendship with North Saanich’s Campbell Stuart, a retired federal trade negotiator who had lost [Continue]

KNOX – A fire-in-the-sky reminder from Elon Musk to look up now and again

March 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

A FIERY LIGHT shot across our sky Thursday night, a mysterious celestial display that lit up Victoria like a bike-lane debate. Fortunately, I was able to sacrifice a goat, [Continue]

KNOX – Eighteen years later, it’s time to celebrate refugees’ success

March 21, 2021 // 1 Comment

EIGHTEEN YEARS LATER, Margaret Lansana still remembers the scene at the Victoria airport on that chilly, very un-African day. Drums were pounding, flowers were thrust in her [Continue]

KNOX – Spring forward, fall back and crawl under the bed until 2022

March 15, 2021 // 2 Comments

TO BE FAIR, Premier John Horgan never actually promised we would scrap the time change by now. No, in 2019 when B.C. passed legislation to do away with the twice-a-year clock [Continue]

KNOX – Some saw only the addict, others the man inside

March 7, 2021 // 0 Comments

WHAT WAS SHOCKING about Wayne Samson’s fall is that it came from such a height. One day he was a successful, middle-aged Victoria businessman — wife, kids, house, the [Continue]

KNOX – Off-target tweets don’t phase Georgia’s John Horgan

February 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

IT WAS AN IMPASSIONED PLEA from a Point Grey resident that got John Horgan’s attention Monday. I’m a parent of four, the email said. Extending SkyTrain to UBC will change [Continue]